Jiří David - M.M.

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Jiří David

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 1997

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:07:30
Sound: Sound

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Audiovisual broadcast (TV, radio): Artyčok.tv
Date of broadcast: 16.4.2014
Link: http://artycok.tv/lang/cs-cz/25065/m-m

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Curated in The Window to the VVP AVU Video Archive at Artycok.tv in 2014.

Adopted text on the work: Erotically titillating footage of a voluptuous woman who does everything in order to keep the camera’s attention. We don’t know why the film was made or who this woman is, but when Jiří David discovered her, she reminded him of Marilyn Monroe. David had previously used a posthumous photograph of this sex symbol of the 1960s in his installation Monogram (1992), in which he accompanied the image with acoustic toilet bowls that played the song Happy Birthday Mr. President. The aftertaste of looking at the dead actress fades away after viewing the video made five years later. Marilyn Monroe comes back to life in the form of her frisky doppelganger. According to David, the slowed-down Arabic music that accompanies the video is “a kind of willful act, an Arabesque, perhaps like that ficus tree or whatever that thing is behind ‘Marilyn’, or like the naïve movements of her hands and body.” It can also be interpreted as a counterpoint highlighting the contrast between our view of woman and the Muslim view.
Source of text: Okno do videoarchivu VVP AVU
Author of text: Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
__________________

INFORMATION IN PARTNER DATABASES

Artlist #1: Record at Artlist